4 – Clarifying The Jubilee & Pentecost Weeks
It seems there was some confusion in the last message concerning the Jubilee and Pentecost weeks that needs clarification.
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Maybe it is somewhat providential that I recently came across two messages that I gave over two decades ago. This is the second of those two messages. This was given in 2000, at the Cincinnati North congregationThe English word "church" does not translate the Greek ekklesia — it derives from kyriakos, a pagan term for a building belonging to a lord. The Greek ekklesia — the called-out ones — was used by NT writers to describe both the NT body and Israel in the wilderness (Acts 7:38), connecting directly to the Hebrew qahal, the assembled congregation, which the Septuagint most commonly renders as ekklesia. A spiritual organism, not a building or institution. Synonyms: ekklesia, ecclesia, called-out ones, assembly, congregation, kyriakos, qahal, edah. See The Called-Out Ones More of the United Church of God.
